Archive - Matriarchal Blessing

Do you keep mistaking the women in your life for sexy lamps?

How many women in the best movies of all time can be replaced with a sexy lamp?

3 hrs ago •

What if the future is soft?

The seductive comfort of hopelessness and why to hope anyway.

Feb 16 •

Be a hero. Be a sheep.

We REALLY don't need any more sheepdogs. But now more than ever we are in desperate need of caring sheep.

Feb 9 •

I got so jealous while researching the women's circles of the 70s that I'm starting one

Introducing Women's Circle 2025

Feb 2 •

January 2025

Love is not all we need.

Lessons from Bishop Budde and others who strike the rare balance between love and accountability.

Jan 26 •

In all of recorded history, there has never been a matriarchy. Why?

What happens when women are given power?

Jan 19 •

Blake Lively and Amber Heard: When history repeats itself before we learn our lesson.

The deep dive you've been looking for on what happens when astroturfing meets patriarchy. And how exactly we keep falling for it.

Jan 12 •

Replaceable Women

The replacement of Rhaenyra and Alicent in House of Dragons forced a poem/essay (a pessay?) out of me to honor the graveyard of replaced women.

Jan 5 •

December 2024

Jerry Seinfeld and the Creation of Patriarchy

This just in: men with power feel more comfortable with a clear gendered hierarchy.

Dec 29, 2024 •

Women tell other women that they are not crazy, dumb or inferior: a 600 year history. Part 2.

I recently started writing some of the scripts for Breaking Down Patriarchy’s YouTube series Patriarchy 101.

Dec 22, 2024 •

Women tell other women that they are not crazy, dumb or inferior: a 600 year history. Part 1.

"Its not you, it's the system." - every generation of women. (voice over: "but their words were not recorded or shared. Leaving the next generation to…

Dec 15, 2024 •

The marriage advice every couple needs, but no one gets

In order to love and be loved, both men and women must do the thing they've been taught their whole lives NOT to do.

Dec 8, 2024 •

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